- $40
Photos + Foil = FUN!
- Course
- 20 Lessons
Come spend some delightful time playing with foil and photo transfer as you create little winged friends, ready to turn into lovely postcards or mini art quilts. Learn two easy techniques for transferring photocopies onto cloth and please your inner magpie with easy to apply, shiny, permanent, metallic foil. Learning a little about Thermofax screen printing is an added bonus that I’m sure you will fall in love with.
Supplies
- 1/2 yard Tight weave, smooth white fabric (washed without fabric softener, ironed) These are for practice and tests. Most will be cut or torn into US letter sized pieces.
- Fabric and Paper scissors
- Iron and ironing surface
- Baking Parchment or Silicone press sheet to protect ironing surface and iron from fusible web
- Masking tape
- Metal spoon
- Hard smooth surface (cookie sheets work well and this technique does not damage the sheet or use a piece of glass from a picture frame with the edges taped for safety)
- cotton balls
- FQ or several letter-page sized pieces of hand dyed or solid-ish fabric
- Plastic bin to hold water or nearby sink - used for rinsing thermofax screens after printing
- Piece of craft felt to use as a printing surface
- Gloves to protect hands from solvent (optional but recommended)
- Kit or materials listed below:
Kit Includes
- Citra-Solv
- Transfer Art Paper
- Laser Printed images
- Foil, Foil Glue
- Thermofax Wing Screen and card for squeegee
- Squeegee card
- Misty-fuse
How This Course Works
This course is an online on-demand workshop. You will need an internet connection to stream each video.
Each lesson includes space for you to share your pictures and get feedback from your classmates. The more you contribute, the livelier class will be. Lyric will pop in to give feedback on each picture posted. This platform provides a safe space for a lively and sharing creative community to explore without judgement and competition.
Each lesson includes space for you to share your pictures and get feedback from your classmates. The more you contribute, the livelier class will be. Lyric will pop in to give feedback on each picture posted. This platform provides a safe space for a lively and sharing creative community to explore without judgement and competition.
Just like in a live classroom, you'll be able to see your fellow students work and discuss how things are going. You'll get encouragement and instruction from Lyric on all the work you post.
Frequently asked questions
You’ve got questions. We’ve got answers.
How much interaction is there from the teacher?
Lyric will comment on each posted assignment. The more you post, the more you get out of the class. Make sure to read comments on other students work as well. There is as much to learn from each other as from the course work.
What are the lessons like?
Lessons include short videos, written instructions, and supply lists.
Will you include links to suppliers?
Absolutely yes! If you are an international (outside of the US) student and have bead supplier links to share, please do!
How long do I have access to the course?
Once you've enrolled and paid, you'll have access to the course material for one year. So devour it all in one weekend or take things slow. It's your choice!
What do I need to know about using a computer?
You'll need to photograph or scan your assignments and save them as a jpeg. You can upload your pictures from your computer or device to the online lesson.
Is this class refundable?
Since all of the content is immediately available on payment, this class is not refundable. I do want you to be happy though so send me an email and let's talk. lyric@lyrickinard.com
Contents
Welcome!
Introductions
Class Supply List and Instructions
How This Classroom Works: a few tips for navigating this course
Lesson outline and overview
Thermofax Screen
What is it?
- 3 mins
- 61.3 MB
How to print with a thermofax screen
- 5 mins
- 131 MB
Extra: how to print overlapping images
- 2 mins
- 42.4 MB
Solvent Photo Transfer
What makes a good photo for Citrasolv transfer?
CitraSolv Photocopy Transfer
- 9 mins
- 236 MB
Photo transfer on colored or printed cloth
- 2 mins
- 51.5 MB
Extra: make your transfer permanent
- 2 mins
- 44.5 MB
Inkjet Transfer Paper
How Transfer Art Paper works
- 5 mins
- 142 MB
Using TAP on printed or colored cloth
- 3 mins
- 66.8 MB
Foil on Fabric
Apply foil to your screen printed glue
- 3 mins
- 62 MB
Extras: Other ways to apply foil to fabric
- 5 mins
- 135 MB
Putting it all Together
Adding fusible web to the back of your photo
- 5 mins
- 123 MB
Assembling your art
- 7 mins
- 98.4 MB
Student Gallery
Wrapping Up
Course Evaluation: help me make this class even better!
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Learn with Lyric
Lyric Montgomery Kinard is an award winning artist with a passion for sparking the creativity that she knows each of her students posses. She was recognized for her talents as the 2011 International Association of Professional Quilters Teacher of the Year.
With playful support and gentle encouragement she will take you through your first steps on a new path, seeing the world through the eyes of an artist. As an artist, author, and educator she transforms cloth into art in her studio and timid spirits into confident creatives in the classroom.
With playful support and gentle encouragement she will take you through your first steps on a new path, seeing the world through the eyes of an artist. As an artist, author, and educator she transforms cloth into art in her studio and timid spirits into confident creatives in the classroom.